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I completely agree and I try to remind people on these forums of this method all the time!

Submitting to Yahoo! Canada is probably the easiest, fastest, most reliable way to get listed in Yahoo! Even the paid method can't beat it - you still need to get reviewed by the main Yahoo!'s editors, which seem to be not only strict but stupid in many cases (i.e. SitePoint sites not making it in).

But what if you are already listed on the US or main Yahoo? Do you also get listed in Yahoo Canada? I've never checked.
I know I had to submit like 4-5 times before I got in. Think it was a 3-4 month wait.

If you're already in the main Yahoo!, there's no reason to submit to Yahoo! Canada. Traffic from secondary Yahoo! sites seems unworthwhile and you wouldn't want to risk your current listing (not to say you would lose it.. but who knows).

So you are saying, you submit the Yahoo link page your site is listed on? That is a different twist. I guess it's like saying, "crawl this yahoo page" right? Or making sure they all know your on Yahoo. It does seem like it could help, and it sure could'nt hurt.

I don't mean to get off the subject, but you talk about link popularity. Why is there such a difference between the engines on this? Or I guess the better question how can you even it out? When I check, I have like 1400 on hotbot, 1,000 on AV and then only like 300 -400 on the rest. Is there a way to even it out? Would this trick you talk about help? I would guess not all SE's spider as deep, or as much as others. would be the reason for the difference.

As per Link Popularity I guess there are tons of reasons why your numbers vary. Perhaps pepole with inbound links just have not submitted their sites to some engines. Perhaps some engines have lazy spiders. Perhaps the engines have dumpped data (HotBot HotBot). The list goes on and on.

As per how you can even it out? Man, that could be a lot of work. But perhaps one way might be to go over to google and type link:yourdomain.com in the search field. That will bring up a list of everyone who is linking to you.

Then, open up another browser window and load in http://jimtools.com. From there just start typing in the URL's you find in Google into the JimTools Submitter and keep doing so until you are finished.

Make sure you use an alternate e-mail address though. If you use your regular e-mail address you'll soon be inundated with spam from some of the smaller engines.

That does bring up an ethicle question though. The question being should you submit web pages from other people's sites.

Perhaps that's more of a conversation than this thread intended, so I'll just mention that some folks prefer to create a gateway type page of all the sites that are linking to them and submit that. Thereafter they hope that the spiders will crawl the gateway.

Originally posted by ronnie JK,
When I check, I have like 1400 on hotbot, 1,000 on AV and then only like 300 -400 on the rest. Is there a way to even it out? Would this trick you talk about help? I would guess not all SE's spider as deep, or as much as others. would be the reason for the difference.